1921

Bill Perry has been coming in for some flattering congratulations because his son Hart Perry '55 has had another baby, which has been baptized with victorious Connecticut River water. The baby's name is Shell, but out of deference to Daddy it has William H. Perry Jr. imprinted on the brow. But brow is really bow. On April 21 Mrs. J. Michael McGean, wife of the Associate Secretary of the College, acted as Ministering Pourer while Pete Gardner, Varsity Coach, looked on. Are you now in the picture? The new racing shell of the Dartmouth Rowing Club was named after the former coach of Dartmouth's ' lightweight crew. Dartmouth was elated that in its very first race the Perry Shell, manned by varsity heavies, beat Boston University. The University of Paris baptizes its Seine River shells in champagne, but Dartmouth prefers that ice-chilled, clear, effervescent Connecticut River Water "tasting of Flora and the country green, dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth."

If Ray Mallary had a big law practice in Springfield, he has a bigger farm in Bradford, though it began small enough back in 1935 with only 42 acres, a broken-down house, and a barn. What started as a plaything with five cows and a bull calf, Holsteins, has now developed into a business involving no less than 1,200,000 pounds of milk in one year alone. More important perhaps are the sales of seed stock for breeding and bulls for breeding association. Mallary bulls have even been flown to South America. The 42 acres have grown to 1,500 of excellent river-bottom land and woods; the broken-down house into a fine residence and six or seven farms. The once-casual Mallarys have their son Dick '47 as present partner and manager of the - for Vermont - immense farm and tenant workers, and Dick is not only an executive but also a scientific planner. The Mallary farm has won so many awards that Ray has almost lost track. Dick and his mother Gertrude have also made names for themselves in Vermont political life and in Holstein and Friesian circles everywhere. They work long hours and long days, and Ray himself is no slouch. "Anyone who is afraid of work," he observes sagely, "does not belong in the dairy and breeding business."

What is it about the Caribbean which attracts 1921? Indefatigable travelers with adventuresome imaginations, Bob and DottieBurroughs have unearthed something really choice. They discovered of course lovely coral beaches, warm water, and snorkeling, but they revelled also in the Bay Hotel on the island of Sin Maarten, half Dutch and half French, and in the Eden Rock Hotel on the French-owned island of St. Barthelemy. The owner of Eden Rock, the French Consul General, with Gallic gestures flies the airplane, his own, which transports you from Sin Maarten to St. Barthelemy. The language is French, and Bob had fun recalling suave phrases taught him - 10, these many years — by Professor Bruerton, Dartmouth College- How useful shoulders, arms, and hands may be Bob found out again as he sought for mots justes and delicatesses de sentiment.

With two gay and charming companions, Monette and Susan, Chuck Moreau explored Puerto Rico for a month and the Virgin Islands for a fortnight where all three enjoyed themselves and Chuck turned over in his mind the possibilities of making some sort of an investment which might warrant a winter home. Glen Ridge won out. For the time being at least, the Moreaus will make New Jersey their permanent base with further sorties to Caribbean and other islands, possibly a French one, in search of sun, color, adventures, and a pied-a-terre or a maison de campagne.

Chuck and Monette will be interested to learn that Newell and Ginny Smith left Bridgeport to spend more than two months in St. Croix and found it so enjoyable that they are returning next year to stay four months.

If you think of Florida as lethargic where men our age settle down quietly, Kent andMarj McKinley are two persons to challenge so easy a generalization. A whirlwind of energy, Kent is running not only The News but also he is running for State Senator. (By this time he is probably elected.) If close friends refer to Senator-To-Be McKinley as Kent, acquaintances address him respectfully as Colonel - or used to. Now Kent is enjoying a sea change. He is called Admiral, the result of the esteem in which the Governor of Kentucky holds him. But this paragraph does not concern Florida only. Kent and Marj with their usual elan took off for what they are disposed to call "a quickie," which means a jet to Greece and Turkey, Rome and Paris. In between somehow, they moved into Athens and Istanbul and Ismir. Ably assisted by Marj, Kent is an astute newspaper executive, and the trip was one of the so-called friendship tours which The News, Inc., sponsors. Kent has a nostalgic glint in his eye. He is for Barry Goldwater and for the good old days of President McKinley, who, according to Kent, had some admirable understanding about free enterprise, imagination, and the American dream to be realized with the right sort of energy and with freedom unhampered by government interference.

Russ Goodnow continues to interest himself in education and has stimulating comments to make about students and equipment, European and American. A couple of years ago he visited the University of Heidelberg, the London School of Economics, the University of Stockholm, and Uppsala University where, measured by American standards, physical facilities are wretched, but intellectual attainments high. Russ asks himself -and others - if it is true that despite the billions spent in this country on education and on foundation-sponsored research we are "sinking into the mires of conformism and enmassment."

Erling Hunt with a particularly strenuous year back of him feels no sadness in saying no to Europe and yes to Norwich and Hanover this summer. He said hello to Dartmouth history professors at a spring convention in Milwaukee, home of Ted Hartshorn. After 24 years as Chairman of the Department of the Teaching of Social Studies, Columbia University, Erling has reduced some operations to routine, but seniority has added the unavoidable responsibilities coming to men efficient and loyal.

It was a lovely autumn day. With football and friendship in the air, men and women of 1921 were bobbing about the Ski Hut located on the future site of Hopkins Center. In a dramatic lull John Sullivan made a motion that Admiral Walter T. Boone, USN, be made an adopted life member of Dartmouth 1921. He was voted in unanimously with cheers. Admiral Boone gratefully acknowledges the 1921 greetings sent him on his sixty-fourth birthday. He has a new address and a new position. Since his retirement from the active Navy, March 1, 1960 he has been serving on the Advisory Board of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis. On no fewer than four occasions the work has taken him to Europe, and off he took again this spring for the fifth flight. He is happy in his efforts to help McDonnell produce what he calls "undoubtedly the finest strike-fighter in the free world - the holder of most of the recognized world speed records." Adopted as the standard carrier fighter for the U. S. Navy, it is now in operation as the new strikefighter for the Tactical Air Command of the Air Force. Admiral Boone believes that the defenses of our Nato Alliance would be greatly strengthened if this weapon were to be adopted by a number of our allies in Europe. To this project he has been devoting his efforts in the industrial world since his retirement. Incidentally, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation produced the spacecraft in which Colonel John Glenn and his fellow astronauts made their epochal flights.

Bertram Hauser '22 (l) visits with LouisWilcox '23 and Herbert Englert '42 inthe New York Dartmouth Club.

Secretary, JOHN HURD Hanover, N. H.

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